Hourly pay rewards presence, salary rewards availability, and paying by the job rewards speed. Owners writing rules to correct behavior are usually correcting their own incentive.
Somebody collecting three quotes cannot assess the work itself. They can only assess the paperwork, which means the document is doing more selling than the price.
All three feel like costs of earning a living, because they are, and all three are generally not deductible. One piece of reasoning explains every one of them.
The offer refused in month two is often better than the outcome reached in month fourteen, once somebody counts what the intervening year actually took out of them.